One was Chagall’s move in 1949 from Paris to the Côte d’Azur (where in the hillside communes of Vence and, later, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, he would live the rest of his life).
There were two obvious catalysts for this.
If Chagall’s choice of characters remained similar throughout his career, one way in which his painting notably advanced was with his use of intense colour in his latter years. In Foray’s view, the two figures are better regarded symbolically than as portraits. It might be tempting, for example, to see the painter and bride in one of the paintings coming to auction - L'envol du peintre - as depictions of Chagall and Bella (who had met and married young in Vitebsk). ‘We cannot interpret them,’ he says, ‘because they are simply part of Chagall’s world, like figures from a dream.’ According to Jean-Michel Foray, erstwhile director of the Marc Chagall Museum in Nice, however, we shouldn’t push too hard in trying to ‘decrypt’ what the scenes mean. The inspiration for his scenes came, in part, from memories of life in Vitebsk, the small town in present-day Belarus where he’d been born, in 1887, and brought up. ‘No work was ever so magical ,’ said André Breton. Though he disavowed any connection with Surrealism, it’s little surprise that the leaders of that movement hailed him as a godfather. These include blue cows, rooftop fiddlers, smiling goats, circus clowns, giant roosters and lovers floating in mid-air, all of whom populate an instantly recognisable Chagallian universe. ( The first part of the sale was held in London in June.)Ĭhagall relied on a fantastical set of characters, which served him faithfully across the decades. Twenty of his works are being offered in the second part of the Marc Chagall, Colour of Life sale, at Christie’s in Hong Kong on 1 December - most of which date from the latter part of his career, i.e. He continued working pretty much till his dying day, in 1985, aged 97. The remarkable thing, however, is that despite his advanced age, Chagall never needed much refreshing. ‘I feel… more muscular now,’ he said shortly after the trip was over.
In Leningrad, meanwhile, he saw his sisters, Lisa and Mariaska, for the first time in 50-plus years. The visit included the opening of an exhibition of his work at the prestigious State Tretyakov Gallery in the capital. ‘I am an alien to them,’ he wrote in his autobiography, My Life, published the following year.īy the early 1970s, however, there had been a certain liberalisation in Soviet quarters, and the Minister of Culture invited Chagall to Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and Moscow for 10 days. He was 85 years old and hadn’t seen the country of his birth for more than half a century.įollowing the Russian Revolution, Chagall’s avant-garde imagery increasingly came to be deemed unacceptable by the authorities, and in 1922 he, his wife Bella and their young daughter quit the Soviet Union for Western Europe.
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